Digital Image Distribution Projects and Evaluation
• Museum Educational Site Licensing Project
• Mellon Grant to UCB to study the costs and benefits of networked distribution of digital museum information for educational use as part of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project
• Image Directory by Academic Press
• Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), Art Museum Directors' Association
• Museum Digital Licensing Consortium (MDLC), American Association of Museums
• Corbis Media
• Digital Collections, Inc.
• Publishers Depot, Picture Network International (PNI), now owned by Kodak
• Muse, West Stock Photo Agency
• Black Star stock photos
• Davis, L.J. The Billionaire Shell Game: How Cable Baron John Malone and Assorted Corporate Titans Invented a Future Nobody Wanted, Doubleday, 1998
• Coyle, Karen. Coyle's Information Highway Handbook: A Practical File on the New Information Order, Chicago: American Library Association, 1997
• Swisher, Kara. aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web, Times Books, 1998
• Stone, Allucquere Rosanne. The war of desire and technology at the close of the mechanical age, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995
• Boyle, James. Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Press, 1996.
• Brook, James, Chris Carlsson and Nancy Peters (eds.). Reclaiming San Francisco: history, politics, culture, San Francisco: City Lights, 1998.
• Davis, Jim, Thomas A. Hirschl and Michael Stack (eds.). Cutting Edge: Technology, Information Capitalism and Social Revolution, New York: Verso, 1997.
• Duncombe, Stephen. Notes from the Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture, New York: Verso, 1997.
• Edwards, Paul E. The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War American, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.
• Frank, Thomas. The Conquest of the Cool, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
• King, David. The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia, New York: Metropolitan Books-Henry Holt, 1997.
• Ledbetter, James. Made Possible by ... The Death of Public Broadcasting in the United States, New York: Verso, 1997.
• Lesk, Michael. Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Bytes & Bucks, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1997.
• Litan, Robert E. Going Digital: A Guide to Policy in the Digital Age, Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institute, 1998.
• Lloyd, David and Paul Thomas. Culture and the State, New York: Routledge, 1998.
• Porter, David (ed.). Internet Culture, New York: Routledge, 1997.
• Rochlin, Gene I. Trapped in the net : the unanticipated consequences of computerization Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997
• Siegel, David. Creating Killer Websites, Second Edition, Hayden Books, 1997.
• Stefik, Mark. Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths and Metaphors, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.
• Ullman, Ellen. Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents, San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997.
• Vidal, John. McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial, New York: New York Press, 1997.
• Webster, Frank. Theories of the Information Society, New York: Routledge, 1995.
• Bad Subjects Production Team. A Manifesto for Bad Subjects in Cyberspace, Bad Subjects, #18, Jan 1995
• Balsamo, Anne Marie. Technologies of the gendered body: reading cyborg women, Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
• Bogard, William. The simulation of surveillance: hypercontrol in telematic societies, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• Castells, Manuel. The Rise of the Network Society (The information age: economy, society and culture, volume 1,) Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996
• Cherny, Lynn and Elizabeth Reba Weise. Wired women: gender and new realities in cyberspace, Seattle: Seal Press, 1996.
• Graham, Stephen. Telecommunications and the city : electronic spaces, urban places, New York: Routledge, 1996.
• Gray, Chris Habels. The cyborg handbook, New York: Routledge, 1995.
• Moody, Fred. I sing the body electronic: a year with Microsoft on the multimedia frontier, New York: Viking, 1995.
• Poster, Mark. CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere, 1995
• Robertson, George. FutureNatural: nature, science, culture, New York: Routledge, 1996.
• Robins, Kevin. Into the Image: Culture and politics in the field of vision, London: Routledge, 1996
• Sardar, Zia and Jerry Ravetz. Cyberfutures: Culture and Politics on the Information Highway, London: Pluto Press, 1996
• Springer, Claudia. Electronic eros : bodies and desire in the postindustrial age, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.
• Virilio, Paul. The art of the motor, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
• Adbusters
• American Civil Liberties Union not yet online
• Anderson, Robert H. et. al. Universal Access to Email: Feasibility and Societal Implications (Rand study sponsored by Markle Foundation)
• Arbus, Steve. Free Expression, Copyright, and Democracy, links and talk given at UC Berkeley Ethics and the Internet 11/95 conference
• Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. New York : Noonday Press, c1972 (1990 printing).
• Benton Foundation. Communication Policy Project, (assorted public policy links)
• Besser, Howard. Implementing and Maintaining a WorldWide Web Site to Support Instruction, Revue Informatique et Statistique dans les sciences humaines, 1996) (not available outside the UC Berkeley domain)
• Besser, Howard. Issues and Challenges for the Distance-Independent Environment, Journal of the American Society for Information Science 47:11, Nov 1996 (not available outside the UC Berkeley domain)
• Besser, Howard. The Impact of Distance-Independent Education, Journal of the American Society for Information Science 47:11, Nov 1996 (not available outside the UC Berkeley domain)
• Besser, Howard. The Changing Role of Photographic Collections With the Advent of Digitization Discussion Paper for Working Group for Digital Image in Curatorial Practice, George Eastman House, June 4, 1994
• Besser, Howard. The Information SuperHighway: Social and Cultural Impact Chapter from Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information, edited by Jim Brook and Iain Boal, City Lights Books, 1995
• Besser, Howard. A Clash of Cultures on the Internet Op Ed piece appearing in San Francisco Chronicle August 25, 1994
• Besser, Howard. Movies-on-demand May Significantly Change the Internet From the October 1994 ASIS Bulletin theme issue on Entertainment Technology and Information Services
• The Information Highway must be a Two-Way Street: The Arts and Humanities Communities Cannot be merely Consumers Presentation to the Convergence Conference: Arts and Humanities and the NII
• Besser, Howard. Elements of Consciousness, (unpublished excerpt from dissertation), Berkeley, 1988
• Besser, Howard. The Changing Museum, in Ching-chih Chen (ed), Information: The Transformation of Society (Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science), Medford, NJ: Learned Information, Inc, 1987, pages 14-19
• Besser, Howard. The Transformation of the Museum and the Way it's Perceived in Katherine Jones-Garmil (ed.), The Wired Museum, Washington: American Association of Museums, 1997, pages 153-169. (earlier version)
• Besser, Howard. The Changing Role of Photographic Collections With the Advent of Digitization in Katherine Jones-Garmil (ed.), The Wired Museum, Washington: American Association of Museums, 1997, pages 115-127. (earlier version)
• Besser, Howard. Poland: the making and unmaking of the news, Berkeley: Anti-Authoritarian Studies, 1983.
• Besser, Howard. Fast Forward: The Future of Moving Image Collections, in Gary Handman (ed), Video Collection Management and Development: A Multi-type Library Perspective, Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994, pages 411-426
• Besser, Howard. Adding an Image Database to an Existing Library and Computer Environment: Design and Technical Considerations, in Susan Stone and Michael Buckland (eds.), Studies in Multimedia (Proceedings of the 1991 Mid-Year Meeting of the American Society for Information Science), Medford, NJ: Learned Information, Inc, 1992, pages 31-45
• Besser, Howard. Education as Marketplace, in Robert Muffoletto and Nancy Knupfer (eds), Computers in Education: Social, Political, and Historical Perspectives Cresskill, NY: Hampton Press, 1993, pages 37-69
• Birkerts, Sven. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. New York: Faber and Faber, 1994.
• Brook, James and Iain Boal. Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information, San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1995.
• Brand, Stewart. The Media Lab: inventing the future at MIT. New York: Penguin, 1988.
• Burnett, Ron. Critical Approaches to Cultural Studies
• Carlsson, Chris. Bad attitude: the Processed World anthology. New York: Verso, 1990.
• Copyright writings, assorted papers and pointers
• Coyle, Karen. assorted papers
• Debord, Guy. Society of the spectacle, Detroit : Black & Red, 1983.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation, various publications
• FC [Freedom Club?], Unabomber Manifesto (Time-Warner version) and other Unabomber information/writings
• Ethics and the Internet, readings from 11/95 conference
• Free Radio Berkeley
• Gibson, William. Neuromancer, New York: Ace Books, 1984.
• Intellectual Property
• Janson, Sverker. [Pointers to] Intelligent Software Agents [web sites]
• Kling, Rob (ed.). Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices, San Diego: Academic Press, 1996.
• Kling, Rob and Tom Jewett Teaching Social Issues of Computing (guide)
• Kroker, Arthur and Michael A. Weinstein. Data Trash: The Theory of the Virtual Class. New York: St. Martin's, 1994.
• Lyman, Peter and Howard Besser. (1998).  Defining the Problem of Our Vanishing Memory: Background, Current Status, Models for Resolution in Margaret MacLean and Ben H. Davis (eds.), Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity, Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute and Getty Conservation Institute, pages 11-20
• McKiernan, Gary. Project Aristotle, a clearinghouse of projects, research, products and services devoted to 'automated categorization' of Web resources
• Mitchell, William J. City of Bits: Space, Place, and the InfoBahn, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1995
• New York Times online discussion of the future of newspapers.
• Poster, Mark. CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere, 1995
• Postman, Neil. Technopoly: the surrender of Culture to Technology, New York: Knopf, 1992.
• Prichard, Peter. The making of McPaper: the inside story of USA today. Kansas City : Andrews, McMeel & Parker, 1987.
• Rezmierski, Virginia E. Ethics and Values Dilemmas in Use of Information Technology: Policy Implications for Institutions of Higher Learning, (class taught at University of Michigan)
• Ronell, Avital. The telephone book: technology--schizophrenia--electric speech, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.
• Sclove, Richard E. Democracy and Technology, New York: Guilford Press, 1995.
• Sheff, David. Game Over: How Nintendo has enslaved your children, captured your dollars and zapped the competition and why it has Apple, Sony, and IBM running scared, New York: Random House,1993.
• Smith, Anthony. Goodbye, Gutenberg: the newspaper revolution of the 1980s, New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.
• Sterling, Bruce. Hacker Crackdown: Law and disorder on the electronic frontier, New York: Bantam, 1992.
• Twitchell, James B. Adcult USA: The Triumph of Advertising in American Culture, New York: Columbia Univ Press, 1995. (publicity)
• Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
• Zerzan, John and Alice Carnes (eds). Questioning technology : tool, toy or tyrant?, Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1991.
• Economics of the New Information Infrastructure
• Goldhaber, Michael. Principles of the New Economy (the Attention Economy)
• Santos, Michael. The Internet and Privatization: A Critical Political Economy Perspective
• Workshop on Internet Economics March 9-10, 1995 Research Program on Communications Policy; MIT Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development
• Schickele, Sandra. The Economic Case for Public Subsidy of the Internet
• Additional readings from:
• D-Lib Magazine (important articles on Digital Libraries)
• Important news articles to read for class
• Howard's multimedia sites.
• Index to multimedia resources.
• Hot Wired Magazine
• Mondo 2000 (magazine)
• FringeWare Review Magazine

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